How to build a house.
90% of the work of building a house can be done by a semi-competent DIY'er. Learning the basics of framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, drywall, etc, is not that hard.
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How to reason through solving a problem or fixing something. Not necessarily being successful, but just the process of thinking about possible things to try or steps to take.
Knowing how to swim or ride a bike. It's not too common, but when someone tells me they can't, I'm quietly kinda shocked.
socioeconomics plays a large part here. I learned to swim at the ymca, but schlepping my silly ass to and from swim practice meant parental involvement.
bikes? learning to ride a bike in the suburbs is natural; learning to ride a bike when you live in an apartment building - hell keeping a bike from getting stolen is difficult when you don't have a garage.
imho, these are both easy to understand when you view through a larger socioeconomic starting point: we don't all have the same opportunities and resources.
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Chicken doesn't need to be covered in vegetable oil to be cooked.
The difference between your and you're.
Same as most kids don't know. there are a number of things. Money, listening, how/who to gather information from. I'm missing your point when you put adults in your question.
Taking feedback constructively
How dare you. Well I never. You kids these days. Think that you know everything
Yep and it can be difficult to tell if someone's reacting badly because they're vulnerable or because they're a twat.
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Cooking & self reflection
very basic sewing repair, like reattaching a button or sewing back down a popped seam
but then again fast fashion makes these skills seem worthless to many people
Honest question: what is there to learn? You've got a thread, a needle, you put the thread in the needle and then you stab the things that need to fit together with it. The only thing that i was told during such stabbing to a button once was that i should wrap the thread around the button when done, but it hasn't prevented me to attached them so far?
You would be surprised how many people are unable to do that, who are physically capable of doing it.
At least where I live there's a cultural learned helplessness around sewing. "Nobody does it anymore so how am I supposed to have learned?" or "doesn't sewing something cost more than just buying a new garment?" (both I've personally heard people say)
For sure it's likely either a learned helplessness or a passive indifference. People like to give up before they even try.
Agreed, fast fashion and it's equivalents have pretty much killed off basic repair in general. My great grandmother taught me how to rewire a lamp, and I think I'm the only person in my friend group that can do it. Most people just toss them when they stop working.
Nana was in her early 20s when the great depression hit, and her influence is probably why I'm so in favor of right-to-repair.
your Nana rules. I can't rewire a lamp myself, but I'm fortunate I have a handful of nerd friends I know could do it for me. I'd bake them some bread (mom's recipe) in return
You should try it sometime, it's actually really easy!
there's a broken one at work I've been meaning to take a stab at. wish me luck lol
You can do it!